Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology Book

	Selected Contents by Theme
	Alphabetical List of Authors
	Chronology of Events and Poetic Landmarks
	Introduction
	Preface to Second Edition
	Editorial Procedures
	Text
	Acknowledgements
	The Choice	6
	The Splendid Shilling	11
	The Liberty	11
	On my leaving London	13
	To One who said I must not Love	14
	The Emulation	15
	The Adventurous Muse	17
	A Winter-Piece	20
	The Spleen	22
	Upon the Hurricane	26
	A Nocturnal Reverie	33
	To the Nightingale	35
	A Sigh	36
	The Agreeable	36
	Friday; or, The Dirge	39
	Trivia, Book II	43
	An Elegy, To an Old Beauty	59
	A Night-Piece on Death	61
	Oft have I read	63
	For His own Epitaph	65
	An Epitaph	66
	The Lady's Looking-Glass	68
	Non Pareil	69
	On a Pretty Madwoman	70
	True Statesmen	71
	A Description of the Morning	74
	A Description of a City Shower	74
	Stella's Birthday, 1721	76
	Stella's Birthday, 1727	78
	A Satirical Elegy On the Death of a late Famous General	80
	The Lady's Dressing Room	81
	A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed	85
	Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift	88
	Windsor-Forest	102
	The Rape of the Lock	113
	Eloisa to Abelard	133
	Epistle to Burlington	141
	An Epistle to a Lady	147
	An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot	155
	The Dunciad, 1743, Book I	167
	Saturday. The Small-Pox	179
	Epistle from Arthur Gray the Footman	181
	The Lover: A Ballad	184
	An Epistle to Lord Bathurst	186
	Verses Address'd to the Imitator of Horace	188
	Verses on Self-Murder	191
	A Hymn to the Moon	192
	Bellaria, at her Spinnet	193
	Whitehall Stairs	195
	The Singing-Bird	196
	Alone, in an Inn, at Southampton	197
	The Bastard	200
	Unconstant	203
	The Innocent Inconstant	205
	The Invitation from a Country Cottage	206
	On Lady Chudleigh	207
	Clio's Picture	208
	Spring	212
	Grongar Hill	239
	The Fleece, Book III	243
	The Thresher's Labour	261
	The Woman's Labour	268
	Strephon to the River	274
	The Return'd Heart	274
	The the Muse	275
	From a Sheet of Gilt Paper. To Cloe	277
	Lines occasion'd by the Burning of some Letters	278
	London	280
	The Vanity of Human Wishes	289
	On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet	298
	An Epistle to Lady Bowyer	300
	Of Desire	303
	After the Small Pox	307
	Dorinda at her Glass	309
	An Epistle to a Lady	312
	The Enquiry	314
	Man the Monarch	316
	An Epistle to Artemisia	317
	Crumble-Hall	322
	Mira's Picture	326
	The Pleasures of Imagination, 1744, Book I	330
	Ode on the Spring	347
	Sonnet on the Death of Richard West	349
	Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College	350
	Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat	352
	Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard	354
	The Progress of Poesy	358
	The Bard	363
	Ode on the Poetical Character	369
	Ode to Evening	372
	Ode to Liberty	374
	The Passions. An Ode for Music	379
	The Enthusiast: Or the Lover of Nature	383
	Ode to Evening	390
	The Dying Indian	391
	The Pleasures of Melancholy	392
	Ode written at Vale-Royal Abbey in Cheshire	399
	Sonnet: To the River Lodon	402
	Verses on Sir Joshua Reynold's Painted Window	403
	The Cit's Country Box	407
	Shakespeare: An Epistle to Mr Garrick	411
	Night	416
	'my Cat Jeoffry'	427
	A Song to David	429
	On a Bed of Guernsey Lilies	446
	Fragments of Ancient Poetry: 7 and 8	448
	Mynstrelles Songe	452
	'Stay, curyous traveller'	454
	An Excelente Balade of Charitie	455
	The Deserted Village	459
	The Village, Book I	470
	To Stella; on a Visit to Mrs Montagu	479
	On Mrs Montagu	481
	Clifton Hill	483
	To Mr ****, an Unlettered Poet	490
	The Vision	493
	To a Mouse	499
	To a Louse	500
	Holy Willie's Prayer	502
	Tam o'Shanter	505
	Corsica	511
	A Summer Evening's Meditation	517
	To Mr Barbauld	520
	The Rights of Woman	521
	To a little invisible Being	522
	To Mr Coleridge	524
	'Hatred and vengeance'	526
	The Task, Book I	527
	Yardley Oak	545
	On the Ice-islands	550
	The Cast-away	552
	Bibliography	554
	Index of Titles and First Lines	559